Klaus has now had Celeste the Strada Velomobile for about four months and cycled over 5,500km in her, including a 9-day 1,270km solo tour to the Baltic Sea last week. Anyway, he’s the sort of chap who likes to do occasional modifications to his bikes and had purchased a couple of months ago a set… Continue reading Celeste the Strada gets new suspension (or, ‘Pimp my Velomobile’)
Author: Auntie Helen
Six Wheels In Germany – June 2016 (Month 27)
Cycling this month Cycling statistics this month This month was a pretty good one for cycling, with over a thousand kilometres ridden despite also working for 110 hours. Notice the increase in my moving average speed since Klaus got his velomobile and I had to speed up (the penultimate column). And here is the Veloviewer… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – June 2016 (Month 27)
Six Wheels In Germany – May 2016 (Month 26)
Cycling this month Cycling statistics this month Here are my rides for this month. And here’s VeloViewer’s Wheel which shows where I have ridden (except for a ride I did in NL). However, the total distance is wrong on this wheel – no idea why as Strava has the correct data (and it gets the… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – May 2016 (Month 26)
Six Wheels In Germany – April 2016 (Month 25)
Cycling in April 2016 Here is a listing of all my rides in April 2016 You will notice that I haven’t used Alfie again this month. In fact, my last ride on Alfie was on 29th January… Velomobiles are so much more pleasant to ride in winter than open trikes! And here are all the… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – April 2016 (Month 25)
Six Wheels In Germany – March 2016 (Month 24)
Cycling this month Cycling statistics this month Here are all the rides – getting the train to Dronten confused the software! And a close-up of the local rides. Once again I managed my metric century (in fact this time a double century) this month with my ride from Dronten to Kempen. Of course once Klaus… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – March 2016 (Month 24)
A new Velomobile and a 201km ride
Nope, I haven’t bought a new Velomobile. But Klaus has! Here is the tale of our two trips to Dronten in NL where most Velomobiles seem to be born. Dronten by car Last year I took Penelope to Ligfietsshop Tempelman for her annual service of the Rohloff hub and a general checkup. Gerritt Tempelman did… Continue reading A new Velomobile and a 201km ride
Six Wheels In Germany – February 2016 (Month 23)
Cycling this month Here is a great photo that one of the chaps on the Fit Durch Den Winter ride at the end of January took of me. Cycling statistics this month This month I have had two trips to the UK over two weekends and the weather has been pretty chilly so I haven’t… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – February 2016 (Month 23)
Six Wheels In Germany – Month 22
January 2016 Cycling this month Here is the list of this month’s rides: As you can see, I had a good month and was able to cycle over 1000km. Here is the map of the places I went (the trip to Essen out on the east of this map was to collect my car so… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 22
Six Wheels in Germany – Month 21
December 2015 Cycling this month This month wasn’t a particularly high mileage one, despite the amazingly mild weather. A trip to England for Christmas and general busyness meant I didn’t ride as much as some other years but I still had some really good trips! Cycling statistics for December 2015 And the routes I took…… Continue reading Six Wheels in Germany – Month 21
Alfie gets an electric motor
So Alfie has ridden 41,932.27km and it was time for an upgrade… so I bought a Bafang 8Fun bottom bracket electric motor, fitted it myself (with the help of Klaus) and have now ridden with it for 300km. Here is the story of the motor fitting… An electric motor? At my age??!!! The first thing… Continue reading Alfie gets an electric motor
Six Wheels In Germany – Month 20
November 2015 Cycling this month Cycling statistics this month This month has been less of a cycling month for me – various other things getting in the way. Nevertheless I managed almost 550km which leaves me 510 by 31st December to hit my target of 10,000km for the year. And here is where I rode… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 20
Six Wheels In Germany – Month 19
October 2015 cycling this month Cycling statistics this month And here is the map of all my tracks. Another interesting (well, to me anyway!) statistic relates to this photo: This is a rear wheel puncture in Alfie. What’s so odd about that, you ask? Well, it just so happens that I am a bit nerdy… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 19
Six Wheels In Germany – Month 18
September 2015 So here we are – eighteen months after I left the UK and I’m still in Germany. It turns out I will be staying – I enjoy life too much here and don’t want to leave. I’m looking for a job and otherwise settling in even more. So there are plenty more blog… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 18
Ruhrtal Tour – Day 4: Hattingen to Kempen
Wednesday 9 September 2015 So this was the last day of the tour – James and I had cycled further each day than we originally estimated so it looked as though we would be back in my Wohnung this evening. We went down to breakfast which was very pleasant but the view outside wasn’t exactly… Continue reading Ruhrtal Tour – Day 4: Hattingen to Kempen
Ruhrtal Tour – Day 3: Arnsberg to Hattingen
Tuesday 8 September 2015 This was our track for today’s ride. The forecast today was a bit of drizzle at 11am and after that sunshine. Sadly the forecast was mistaken and we had drizzle and cloudy skies all day – didn’t really see the sun at all! But that is getting ahead of this report…… Continue reading Ruhrtal Tour – Day 3: Arnsberg to Hattingen
Ruhrtal Tour – Day 2: Winterberg to Arnsberg
Monday 7 September 2015 After a good night’s sleep we woke up to a rather rainy view. The breakfast was good and we were on our way by 9:30am, dressed in our waterproofs. Well, James had normal trousers on but I had gone full waterproofs due to the forecast of a day of rain. The… Continue reading Ruhrtal Tour – Day 2: Winterberg to Arnsberg
Ruhrtal Tour – Day 1: Journey to Winterberg
Sunday 6 September 2015 It’s a long time since the SPEZI Tour, which finished on 1st May, and as James planned to visit me for a couple of weeks we thought it would be nice to do a short tour together – and the Ruhr valley seemed like a good option as the Ruhr flows… Continue reading Ruhrtal Tour – Day 1: Journey to Winterberg
Six Wheels In Germany – Month 17 Part 2
This report had so many photographs that it was best to split it into two. For the first part of this report please click here. Continued… The next day (Sunday) I was flying back to Amsterdam but we had a fair bit of time in the morning so walked along the front at Teignmouth. There… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 17 Part 2
Six Wheels In Germany – Month 17 Part 1
August 2015 This report had so many photographs that it didn’t display well on tablet computers so I have divided it into two posts. For the second half click here. Cycling this month August ended up with a pretty good total considering I had a couple of weekends when I wasn’t able to ride. Here… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 17 Part 1
Six Wheels In Germany – Month 16
July 2015 Cycling this month Cycling Statistics for July 2015 Cycle rides this month At the tail end of June and the beginning of July Claudia was off work and Lara was at a holiday club so we had several hours each day for cycling – and used the time well! 1 July – ride… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 16